VANNEVAR

Date "VANNEVAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Specialty Definition: VANNEVAR

Domain	Definition
Computing	Vannevar /van'-var/ n. A bogus technological prediction or a foredoomed engineering concept, esp. one that fails by implicitly assuming that technologies develop linearly, incrementally, and in isolation from one another when in fact the learning curve tends to be highly nonlinear, revolutions are common, and competition is the rule. The prototype was Vannevar* Bush's prediction of `electronic brains' the size of the Empire State Building with a Niagara-Falls-equivalent cooling system for their tubes and relays, a prediction made at a time when the semiconductor effect had already been demonstrated. Other famous vannevars have included magnetic-bubble memory, LISP machines, videotex, and a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later. Source: Jargon File.
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Crosswords: VANNEVAR

Specialty definitions using "VANNEVAR": Bush, Vannevar ♦ Memex ♦ videotex. (references)

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Commercial Usage: VANNEVAR

Domain	Title
Books	Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century (reference) From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: VANNEVAR

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Drs. Dyer and Shannon with Vannevar Bush]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Usage Frequency: VANNEVAR

"VANNEVAR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VANNEVAR" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: VANNEVAR

Expression using "VANNEVAR": Vannevar Bush. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VANNEVAR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
vannevar bush	39
bush memex vannevar	3
as bush may think vannevar we	3
bush dr vannevar	2
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Anagrams: VANNEVAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-n-n-r-v-v"
	-2 letters: vanner.
	-3 letters: anear, arena, navar, raven, varna, varve.
	-4 letters: anna, area, aver, earn, naan, nana, nave, near, rave, vane, vara, vena, vera.
	-5 letters: ana, ane, are, ava, ave, ear, era, ern, nae, nan, ran, rev, van, var, vav.
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